This years Cowley Groves stableford competition was blessed with perfect golfing conditions, warm and sunny for a change !!! Coming out on top for the 2nd week running after bagging the club championship was Alex McAuley - his 32 gross inward 9 proving decisive, in his score of 38 points !!Platinum Section:1st Alex McAuley 38pts2nd Tommy Fenlon 36pts

Gold Section:1st Lea Dawson 36pts2nd Katie Watterson

Upper Bronze Section:1st Breeshey Jansen 18pts2nd Dan Sandford 16pts

Bronze Section:1st Dollin Jansen 11pts2nd Holly Dawson 8pts

28th August 2012Alex McAuley - 2012 Club Champion

This week saw one of the highlights of the Peel GC Juniors season - the club championship. Coming out on top as 2012 junior club champion, with an excellent 75 gross in testing conditions, was Alex McAuley.There were lots of prizes to play for including the annual chipping & putting competitions for each section. All of our prize winners are listed below. Look out too for some well deserved handicap trimmings this week for Breeshey, Ciara, Tommy & Harry!

This week we played a new competition sponsored by KPMG and kindly arranged by Russell Kelly. After another bright and warm start, the heavens opened mid way through the evening. This didn't affect scoring too much though with all winners comfortably playing to or beating their handicaps.

Hollie Dawson continued a good run of form in the bronze section to take the win and a handicap trimming of 3. Breeshey Jansen took the spoils in upper bronze with 18 points. Adam McCauley followed up his win and 67 gross in the Frank Dagleish last weekend with another solid knock to beat his brother Alex in platinum by 1 point. Taking the gold section on countback from Tommy Fenlon and overall winner of the KPMG Trophy was Ciara Halton with 37 points. Well done Ciara on lifting your second Peel juniors trophy of the season!

Bronze section

1st Hollie Dawson, 17 pts

2nd Anthony Saunders, 10 pts

Upper Bronze section

1st Breeshey Jansen, 18 pts

2nd Dan Sandford, 14 pts

3rd Pheric Jansen, 13 pts (on count back to the last hole!)

Gold section

1st Ciara Halton, 37 pts (on back 9)

2nd Tommy Fenlon, 37 pts

Platinum section

1st Adam McCauley, 36 pts

2nd Alex McCauley, 35 pts

14th August 2012Gallagher Reid Tankard

In glorious conditions, this week we played for the Gallagher Reid Tankard. Many thanks to Albert Gallagher for again sponsoring the competition. The format for the Platinum, Gold & Silver sections was our annual 3 club challenge - which always sorts the young men out from the boys (& ladies from the girls!). Despite the limit on club selection, scoring was impressive with Tommy Fenlon yet again taking the win with a cracking 34 points, this time on countback from James Kelly.

Anthony Young battled to 31pts to finish top Platinum. Nathan Teare took his 2nd win in as many weeks in the silver section. Solid scoring saw Kian Broadhead take the win the the upper bronze section (earning a handicap reduction to 42) Dollan Jansen pipped Hollie Dawson to 1st in the bronze section.Harry Eyres was the flag comp winner with his 36 shots taking him to the hole on the 6th green.

7th August 2012Inaugural Hanover Resources Sponsored StablefordSummer arrived last night at last !!! With excellent playing conditions and a good course, the scoring was as hot as the sunshine. Winning again was in-form Killian Conroy despite his ever decreasing handicap. Thanks to Alison and Richard for their generous sponsorship and Alison's gracious speech during the presentations.Platinum Section:1st Killian Conroy 39pts

This week saw our final open comp of the season - the Alex Neill Trophy kindly sponsored, once again, by club slalwart Tony Neill. After last weeks washout the weather was a little kinder to us and moist but calm conditions certainly didn't dampen the scoring. The results in all divisions were close but coming out on top following recent good form was Ciara Halton with an excellent net 6 under par.

10th July 2012Royal London 360An excellent turnout meant good scoring and stiff competition for the prizes for the inaugural Royal London 360 sponsored competition. Thanks to Simon Pack for attending the presentation on behalf of Royal London. Winning his 3rd trophy of the season was Tommy Fenlon with yet another score better than his ever reducing handicap.

The 2nd Junior Peel Town Cup was played as part of golf week this year and in less than perfect conditions, Harry Daniels took the honours and the bragging rights in the Daniels household !! Many thanks to Eric Beale, Chariman of Peel Commissioners for turning up to present the prize winners.

19th June 2012Dandara Sponsored OpenThe first open competition of the year was played in good conditions last night with the Gold and Platinum sections playing a medal round for the Dandara Trophy. With a superb lap of 64 nett Harry Daniels took the honours by 7 shots picking up both the Trophy and a healthy handicap reduction - soon to be lower than the comp secretary !

Congratulations also to Rachel Craig who won the Flag competition for the 3rd time!!

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12th June 2012John Perry Sponsored Stableford / Charity NightIt was PGC Juniors annual Charity night on the 12th June, combining with the John Perry Sponsored stableford Competition. John is a long standing member of the club and has given his sponsorship to PGC Juniors for an equally long time, many thanks John !! Along with the normal prize presentation we had the pleasure of the company of Lyndsay Quayle, the Peel representative of our chosen charity, Breakthrough Breast Cancer. A donation on the night of £200 was given from PGC Juniors.

5th June 2012Club CompetitionThanks to the TT and the older Juniors having more exams the turnout last night was a little depleted on previous weeks. After a week of good weather for the TT practices and races, Junior Clubnight was once again the victim of weather with wind and rain from the off !! Despite this, a good few ventured out and produced some good scores despite the conditions.

29th May 2012Maitland Sponsored TrophyThe inaugural Maitland Trophy was contested last night and many thanks to Jaco Jansen for the great trophy and presenting the prizes to all the winners. Tommy Fenlon lifted his second trophy of the season with a superb 38 points beating his nearest rival by 6 !!!

22nd May 2012Inghams Sponsored BogeyOn another balmy summers night the Ingams sponsored Bogey produced some brilliant golf and Alex McCauley lifted the trophy with superb score of 3up just pipping the ever present Herman Loubser on the back 9 countback.

Well done to all those who broke their handicap again this week, the standard of golf has improved every week, keep it up !!!_______________________

15th May 2012Ramsey Crookall Stableford

Unfortunately due to the dreaded GSCE's and A-Level exams we had far fewer competitors than in prior weeks for the Ramsey Crookall sponsored stableford format event last night (but good luck to all those sitting their exams in the coming weeks). With an excellent score of 37 points, Tommy Fenlon saw off the competition last night in good, if not breezy, conditions and with the course in great shape.

With the largest turnout so far this year the competition for the Stuart Blackley sponsored trophy was going to be very competitive ! The ever improving Herman Loubser, amassed 40pts of his handicap of 4 to take the trophy and the bragging rights, a very impressive knock !! He was equally impressive in his acceptance speech thanking both the greenstaff, barstaff and of course Stuart for his ongoing support of the club.

Some excellent scoring in the other sections meant that yet again several players will have to check their handicaps before next week.

Congratulations to all the prize winners and to those who earned a handicap reduction, keep practising ! Well done also to Daniel Sandford who moves from the bronze to the upper bronze next week !

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1st May 2012Whittaker Trading Open

PGC juniors held their first open competition of the season this week. Very many thanks once again go to Whittaker Trading for sponsoring the event.

Scoring was a little tempered this week by an icy stiff breeze which made conditions feel more like February than May. One clear exception was James Pringle who, in the Silver section, amassed an impressive 36 points in 15 holes to take the win from Nathan Teare. Check your handicap for next time James!

In the combined Gold/Platinum section Alex McAuley carded a very solid 79 gross off his 9 handicap to, with a net 70, pip Owen Dawson on countback and win the Whittaker Trading Trophy.

A total of 45 golfers took to the course to compete for the Conroy Henry cup last night, high scoring proved to be the order of the night and winning the trophy with a great score of 43 points was Lea Dawson (having only moved up to the gold section last week). The winners were all presented with their prizes from sponsor Brendan Conroy.

Congratulations to all the prize winners and to Lea Dawson, Katie Watterson and Joe Saunders who all move up into their next respective playing category. Well done to Rudi Bryce and Josh Gleave who both earned their handicaps and will be competing in the Bronze section next week !

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10th April 2012Our prayers were answered !!

Thanks to a vast improvement in the weather compared to last week, a total of 45 competitors took part in last nights clubnight, with each section playing for the honours in a Stableford format. Despite being only the 2nd week back the scoring was very close and some excellent scores again means the handicap secretary will be busy cutting a few handicaps before next week !!

Well done to all the prize winners !!! Our resident Pro - Paul O Reilly has been giving the newcomers lessons and this will continue next week for those who have just started. Congratulations also to Kieran Gell and Christian Crompton who have earned their handicaps and will be taking part in the Bronze competition from next week onwards.

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3rd April 20121st Clubnight of 2012 - Only for the brave !!!

Despite near freezing conditions and a howling wind with the odd bit of hail thrown in for good measure, PCG Juniors finally got the 2012 season up and running last night. Despite not very many venturing out onto the course there were still some prizes to be played for and some excellent scores were returned despite the difficult conditions: